New on RubyGlasses: Link: Awesome guides to building a functional rails app: Rails girls is a group dedicated

Rails girls is a group dedicated to training up the next generation of Rails developers... who happen to be women. They tend to run over a weekend and get women of all backgrounds (but without rails experience) to build a rails app from scratch. They have a set of materials that is brief, but quite impressive - and if you follow them through step-by-step it's a quick tutorial on how to get a pretty decently functional Rails app off the ground. Start with the App tutorial to get it up and running with a simple scaffold, to add some basic styling with bootstrap , and add picture-uploads with carrierwave . Then follow the set of guides (links are at the bottom of the app-tutorial page) to get it up on heroku , to add authentication with devise , to use geocoding to add your widgets to a map, to create thumbnails for your uploaded images and more. With just the above you can g...